Nyk33 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 CONCACAF has come out to play in this tournament. If things stand the way they are it will 4-1-1 so far in this tournament. The American teams in general are pretty strong this time. CONCACAF and CONMEBOL. Africa and Asia is pretty disappointing on the other side. The thing is that people expected the CONEMBOL teams to be good because the tournament is in South America and they have stronger teams than CONCACAF. No CONCACAF team was a favorite to even get out their group before the tournament started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin Wall Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 CONCACAF has come out to play in this tournament. If things stand the way they are it will 4-1-1 so far in this tournament. The American teams in general are pretty strong this time. CONCACAF and CONMEBOL. Africa and Asia is pretty disappointing on the other side. The thing is that people expected the CONEMBOL teams to be good because the tournament is in South America and they have stronger teams than CONCACAF. No CONCACAF team was a favorite to even get out their group before the tournament started. That's true. Was just sayin'.Costa Rica is incredible. If they really advance from group stage that would be one of the biggest surprises in World Cup history. Especially when tehy finish first in THAT group! I'm a simple person, I have a pixelated David Beckham as profile photo since 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportstar1212 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 What a letdown. Hopefully Italy can bring it Tuesday against Uruguay, or they're :censored:ed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltere Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Is there anyone on this earth who honestly expected Costa Rica to get out of this group?Un. Believable. Performance from Los Ticos. 1 hour ago, BringBackTheVet said: sorry sweetie, but I don't suck minor-league d CCSLC Post of the day September 3rd 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin Wall Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 That's so amazing!But I'm sad cause this is the end for England! I'm a simple person, I have a pixelated David Beckham as profile photo since 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyk33 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 What a letdown. Hopefully Italy can bring it Tuesday against Uruguay, or they're :censored:ed.Good thing for the Italians is that they go through if they get a draw against Uruguay. Also I'm laughing my ass off at some of the England fans online saying that the Italians lost on purpose to eliminate England. Obviously the Italians would sacrifice their own chances at advancing just to eliminate a team that has very little chance of advancing to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggens Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Colombia, Costa Rica and Chile! Everyone say it with me!It's nice to see non-big name countries advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbadefense1990 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 To think that it's Costa Rica of all nations who validates the argument of Group D being this World Cup's "Group of Death." Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 R.I.P. England. trueyankee26.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorinK92 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I had an exam right over this game, I'll never forgive Physics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Am I hurting being English? A little.Am I suprised? NOThis has been coming for a long time as our FA just sits on it's laurels thinking we will get it right this time without changing our games infrastructure from the grass roots upwards. I have been saying for ages that we should have looked at what Germany did when they were humbled in the 2000 Euro's.The FA's pragmatism has always been were we fail. Now they might do something about it but I have been living in hope since we failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1994 they might actually get their act together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still MIGHTY Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Well hi France. Yikes. (Switzerland is way way wayyyy overrated. I never believed their ranking.) | ANAÂ | LAA | LARÂ | LAL | ASU | CSULB |Â USMNTÂ | USWNT |Â LAFCÂ | OCSC |Â MAN UTDÂ | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sport Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 France alternates between good and bad performances in the World Cup. In 82 and 86 they made the semifinals. In 1990 and 1994 they didn't even qualify. Four years after that they won it all 98. In 2002 they scored 0 goals in three games. In 2006 they lost in the final. In 2010 they went 0-1-2. Pick a side, French. Are you good at soccer or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 This has been coming for a long time as our FA just sits on it's laurels thinking we will get it right this time without changing our games infrastructure from the grass roots upwards. I have been saying for ages that we should have looked at what Germany did when they were humbled in the 2000 Euro's.The FA's pragmatism has always been were we fail. Now they might do something about it but I have been living in hope since we failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1994 they might actually get their act together.The FA unfortunately is reactive rather than proactive - every once in a while we have a major tournament spanking and there's much hand wringing about what to do to ensure it never happens again. The answer is usually to use an achieving continental nation as a template, which we then try to emulate in a half-arsed way. When we finally start seeing some results from this, we find the rest of the world has moved on and we're back to square one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS729 Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 Yeah, I think that Swiss #6 ranking seems a little fishy now. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 The Fifa rankings have always been suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 *Insert Swiss Cheese Joke Here.* trueyankee26.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soarindude Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Who would've thought Spain, England, and either Italy/Uraguay will find themselves out of the tournament but Costa Rica being in it.this is why I love the World Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 *pokes Switzerland with stick* Also #CONCACAFRULEZ On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashcarson15 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 "The United States and Mexico don't play anybody in qualifying."(Say the people who had Montenegro as their stiffest challenge to qualify...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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